PEY - Junior Platform Engineer

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Are you interested in being a part of a company that has a positive social impact? Do you want to join a growing team with a modern engineering culture?

At Biblio Commons, we build SaaS solutions for public libraries directly impacting the lives of millions and fostering learning, literacy and culture within the digital world. We are constantly improving our products through user research, client interaction, and the input of our creative staff. Join a team of passionate professionals making public libraries accessible, delightful, and engaging.

A lot of companies tout 'social impact', here at Biblio Commons we serve over 8 million diverse users each month by partnering with close to 200 public libraries in Canada, the US and New Zealand. Libraries are more than just book stacks—they are public spaces that foster learning, connection, and community, and Biblio Commons is bringing that community online with clever software that powers the world's largest libraries.

Biblio Commons offers an opportunity to work in an environment that combines the challenges and complexity of a large-scale, data-intensive application with the creativity and fun of a sophisticated consumer web offering central to the daily web interactions of millions of users.

We’re a highly collaborative team that applies innovative solutions to challenging problems. We strongly believe in automation and invest heavily in it to make that possible. We’re also committed to doing things right and always looking for ways to do them better.

We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer for a 16‑month internship to maintain and build complex integration systems that will help discover more physical and digital content for millions of users as part of the Platform team. In this role, you will be taking on challenges in the distributed systems space to help scale our multi‑tenant applications, embracing the future of software development by leveraging AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, and problem‑solving.

• Great at debugging and not afraid to step out of your comfort zone
• Accountable and take ownership of your work
• Supportive and enjoys working as part of a team
• Passionate to self‑improve, grow and tackle new challenges
• Reliable and give your best effort all the time
• Never content with the status quo. You are always looking to automate, improve processes, and follow best practices
• Curious, adaptable, and comfortable experimenting with AI‑driven approaches to design, build, and optimize applications.

• Enhance and maintain our platform applications that serve millions of users
• Debug and perform root cause analysis on integration issues
• Use AI coding assistants (e.g., Amazon Q, Copilot, or similar LLM‑powered tools) to streamline workflows, generate high‑quality code, and enhance productivity.
• Write clean, robust and performant code
• Maintain quality a priority by writing tests
• Improve developer productivity by refactoring key areas of the platform codebase
• Keep platform systems abreast with new technologies through tool and/or framework upgrades
• Communicate effectively to flag challenges or blockers to deliver on time

• Computer Science/Engineering program
• A solid theoretical foundation in data structures and algorithms
• Excellent problem‑solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative across teams
• Some knowledge of backend applications that interact with databases, caches, and search engines
• Some knowledge of RESTful API applications
• Passionate and motivated to learn new technologies

• Java programming experience or any other Object‑oriented language
• Knowledge of cloud native applications
• Basic computer networking knowledge (Connectivity issues, LANs, firewalls, etc.)

Student (Fixed Term) (Trainee)

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Internship

Full‑time

Engineering and Information Technology

Software Development